The Caravan

The Caravan is India’s first narrative journalism magazine. Stories are reported in a style that uses elements usually reserved for fiction—plot, characters, scenes and setting—to bring the subject to life. Like The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Granta, the context of a Caravan story is something more substantial. In India, this niche—one for the intellectually curious, the aesthetically inclined and the upwardly mobile, has remained vacant. That is, until The Caravan.

THE CARAVAN

The Caravan

Betting the Farm • The exotic vegetables of Bodh Gaya /Agriculture

Sideshow • Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra means little in the face of the Congress party’s organisational weaknesses /Politics

Paradigm Shift • Two recent articulations of Modi’s “New India” paint a grim picture /Politics

Statues and Statutes • The struggle over the past and future of Buddhism in Tamil Nadu /Religion

Pulled Apart • How decades of South Asian unity unravelled in Leicester /Politics

Out in the Cold • How a medicine shortage endangered people living with HIV /Health

BHAGWAT ECLIPSED • In Modi’s shadow, the Sangh leader is no longer supreme

The Rubble • What was lost in the Babri Masjid demolition, thirty years ago, and what remains

SEEDS OF TROUBLE • The forgotten colonial history of Indonesia’s Banda Islands

The Blood of Two Languages

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